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TIL that there is a secret train platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York

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NaAb TIL the oldest man alive is a holocaust survivor whose children died in the Warsaw Ghetto
LkdpP TIL about Queen Soraya of Afghanistan who fought hard to improve the rights of women in the 1920's. She was also the minister of education for Afghanistan and the first Muslim consort to appear in public with her husband. In 1929 her husband was deposed and all their reforms were undone.
ZLmR TIL that after being shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, US President William McKinley told the artillery soldiers who were beating on Czolgosz to “Go easy on him boys.”
JYnv1 TIL the longest filibuster in US history (a process of delaying a bill passing by speaking in the Senate until you want to stop) was over 24 hours (24 hours and 18 minutes). This was an attempt to delay The Civil Rights Act of 1957.
VMPmk TIL In WW II, German submarines used the lights from US coastal cities to see US shipments. Coastal cities refused to limit lighting as was done in Europe due to tourism, and as a result much shipping was destroyed.